On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:24:12AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:08:10PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:> > Fact is that developing ABIs within an integrated project is > > *amazingly* powerful. You should try it one day, instead of > > criticizing it :-)> > I've been doing this long before you declare it the rosetta stone. Some> of the worst ABIs I know come from that kind of development, e.g. all> the ioctls we have in xfs, inherited from the "tightly integrated" IRIX> development cycle.

You need someone with taste in the loop. But if you do, "evolved" isalways better than "designed before you actually know what you need".